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Why no Post-TOPS residency requirement?
Posted on 2/18/20 at 9:03 am
Posted on 2/18/20 at 9:03 am
Might be poli-board, but...
I’m guessing this is because everybody in Louisiana is just trying to get fat off the hog (including middle class), but why is there no residency requirement for tops after college?
If you use tops and leave the state after you graduate from college, you should have to pay back the TOPS scholarship.
The purpose of the top scholarship is to educate Louisianians. Any good reason this isn’t law?
I’m guessing this is because everybody in Louisiana is just trying to get fat off the hog (including middle class), but why is there no residency requirement for tops after college?
If you use tops and leave the state after you graduate from college, you should have to pay back the TOPS scholarship.
The purpose of the top scholarship is to educate Louisianians. Any good reason this isn’t law?
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Posted on 2/18/20 at 9:04 am to MintBerry Crunch
Yeah why actually try to get your shite together as a state to entice people to stay and work when you can just big government the frick out of it and make it mandatory?
Posted on 2/18/20 at 9:04 am to MintBerry Crunch
quote:
but why is there no residency requirement for tops after college?
Because often times the job market does not support that premise.
Signed,
2010 graduate
Posted on 2/18/20 at 9:04 am to MintBerry Crunch
Because the government has fricked up this once great program. Like they do everything in this state
Posted on 2/18/20 at 9:05 am to MintBerry Crunch
I feel like this would be difficult to track or pretty easy to get around
The simplest solution is to just raise the requirements. It is not a difficult fix.
The simplest solution is to just raise the requirements. It is not a difficult fix.
Posted on 2/18/20 at 9:05 am to MintBerry Crunch
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The purpose of the top scholarship is to educate Louisianians.
Last time I checked, they are still Louisianians when they attend college on TOPS.
Posted on 2/18/20 at 9:05 am to Displaced
Because often times the job market does not support that premise.
Signed,
2008 graduate
Signed,
2008 graduate
Posted on 2/18/20 at 9:06 am to MintBerry Crunch
There aren't enough jobs to keep graduates here.
Posted on 2/18/20 at 9:06 am to MintBerry Crunch
A lot of people have to move to Texas just to find a job
Posted on 2/18/20 at 9:06 am to MintBerry Crunch
I think TOPS should be harder to get so students will try harder in high school and college.
Posted on 2/18/20 at 9:09 am to MintBerry Crunch
Tops was just a shell game. State cut funding to State universities, and added tops.
tuition increased exponentially but Tops helped cover the costs...
tuition increased exponentially but Tops helped cover the costs...
Posted on 2/18/20 at 9:11 am to Oilfieldbiology
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Because the government has fricked up this once great program.
Because only giving aid to students who actually excel and may graduate is racist. Screw the guy who designed and funded the program originally. I need to be able to dole out money to my constituents for votes.
-Signed, LA politicians
Posted on 2/18/20 at 9:13 am to MintBerry Crunch
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Why no Post-TOPS residency requirement?
While it would never happen for a few reasons, but I wish TOPS could be a loan program that would forgive 100% of the loan if the student graduated and stayed in Louisiana for a couple of years after graduating. The reason it wouldn't work would be unfairness to people that leave school for hardships (family death, illnesses, accidents, finances, etc). The residency requirement is even trickier b/c you'd need to give a timeline. For example, someone can go to LSU for 4 years on TOPS then has to leave the state temporarily to attend a graduate (or medical) school. It seems like it would be an administrative nightmare sorting out all the 'what ifs'.
Posted on 2/18/20 at 9:15 am to Salmon
quote:
feel like this would be difficult to track or pretty easy to get around
Plenty of medical colleges do it.
Posted on 2/18/20 at 9:18 am to MintBerry Crunch
TOPS needs to be changed/updated. If the jobs are not here for college grads then maybe we should be putting more people into trade school instead of college.
Either way something needs to change with TOPS. I think the easiest fix is, it needs to be loan that is forgiven upon graduation and standards need to be raised so it isn't basically a giveaway.
Either way something needs to change with TOPS. I think the easiest fix is, it needs to be loan that is forgiven upon graduation and standards need to be raised so it isn't basically a giveaway.
Posted on 2/18/20 at 9:19 am to MintBerry Crunch
Posted on 2/18/20 at 9:20 am to ashy larry
How long does someone need to live here to get it? I have a neighbor that has only lived here for 3 years and has one kid in college on TOPS and about to have another. Plans on leaving after next kid graduates high school so she can lock in TOPS.
Seems like that is an area for improvement to the program.
Seems like that is an area for improvement to the program.
Posted on 2/18/20 at 9:29 am to MintBerry Crunch
I believe other states have similar programs and have residency requirements. But if there are no jobs there no jobs.
I do believe one should have to earn a degree or repay the money. Tops should not go to people who want to party and flunk out of college.
I do believe one should have to earn a degree or repay the money. Tops should not go to people who want to party and flunk out of college.
Posted on 2/18/20 at 9:30 am to TH03
quote:Maybe we should suspend TOPS until the state can support enough entry level white collar jobs
Yeah why actually try to get your shite together as a state to entice people to stay and work when you can just big government the frick out of it and make it mandatory?
TOPS is an objectively poor investment for the tax payers in the year of our lord 2020
Posted on 2/18/20 at 9:30 am to MintBerry Crunch
How could you enforce this when Louisiana doesn’t have enough jobs for all those graduates.
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